[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-heavenly-official-bestows-evil":3,"chapter-heavenly-official-bestows-evil-heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-32":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Heavenly Official Bestows Evil",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2316651,4530,"Chapter 32: Curse of Malice","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-32",32,"\u003Cp>With the male corpse no longer interfering, the clapping game proceeded smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Player No. 2, Shi Ji, replaced Wu Xian and became the new seeker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, Player No. 3, Yue Mei, clapped three times in rapid succession, already prepared to be found.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Ji kept his eyes closed and did not search for Yue Mei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he groped in the darkness, searching the room for another source of clapping—he had to find the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother and make her take over as seeker to find Yue Mei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This had been their prearranged plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One guestroom in the inn was too cramped to hold six survivors, but if they split into separate rooms, they would have to face the scenario of searching across rooms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to the Ghost Mother’s footsteps leave the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Followers of the Ghost Mother could reduce the impact of negative emotions during the clapping game and gain her favor, earning the privilege of brief vision within the game, thereby increasing their chances of survival in the blessed land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having become a follower, Yue Mei now found her former self laughably naive, leaving only hatred for Wu Xian and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Holy shit, Brother Wu, I almost pissed myself—had I not been used to dealing with shit, piss, and farts, and trained my nerves to be thick as a brick, I’d have gone insane from that sight.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But bound by the rules of the clapping game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a long stretch afterward, everything remained safe until the final player, Su Huilan, blew air onto the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother’s eyelids, triggering the next round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the cost was that they had to offer sacrifices to the Ghost Mother at regular intervals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The inn’s rooms were small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was an expression she would never have shown before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse still, every time Shi Ji touched the Ghost Mother, horrific visions flooded his mind—these despairing images twisted his face and pushed his sanity to the brink of collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This game was too intense; anyone starting it would likely die on the spot from a sudden heart attack or hypertension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you truly opened your eyes to look at her, you’d probably die in the most gruesome way imaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Room 401.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the risk of accidents was extremely high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this arrangement, all three groups of survivors could stay in their own rooms, greatly increasing safety and making the entire game controllable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shit, this is bad!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I can’t help it—it’s your own fault.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Ji muttered complaints to Wu Xian in a low voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was far too dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wen Chao’s movements were steady.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Ji nervously groped over the Ghost Mother’s body, his fingers nearly cramping—he’d never touched a woman in his life, but knowing he was touching a supreme evil erased any lascivious thoughts; he feared touching something forbidden and being brutally slaughtered by the Ghost Mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeker switch complete!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ghost Mother pushed Shi Ji aside and slowly groped toward Room 401, following the sound of Yue Mei’s clapping—her movements were slow, like a truly blind woman, yet no matter the distance, she always found the next survivor within ten minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But switching the seeker was not easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian’s face darkened: “The mental shock from touching the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother is hard even for you and me to withstand. Yue Mei is the weakest-willed among us—how could she possibly endure the spiritual corruption?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She watched Wen Chao’s actions coldly; when she saw him finally touch the Ghost Mother, a cruel smile spread across her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For an ordinary old man,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Wu Xian guessed the truth, he could not warn the others—he could only pray they remained vigilant toward Yue Mei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Ji had no answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian clenched his teeth, a bad premonition rising—he feared the returning Yue Mei was no longer the same person; she had brought the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother not to help them escape, but for some other purpose…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Mei, having just shed the role of seeker, suddenly opened her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian and Shi Ji both exhaled deeply—they had finally survived this round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Wu Xian proposed a strategy: when a room switch became necessary, the seeker would find the Ghost Mother and make her become the new seeker, crossing rooms to find the next person clapping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept his eyes tightly shut, carefully scanning the room’s edges, leaving no corner unsearched—no matter where the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother hid, he would find her eventually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Ji quickly felt torn fabric and located the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had not been blinded and killed; instead, she had been granted the Ghost Mother’s mercy, at the cost of becoming her follower and offering high-quality flesh and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Ji’s heart lurched: “What’s wrong? Did something else go wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ignorant girl, when worshipping the Ghost Mother’s statue, believed she had found a way to escape death—but in truth, the old woman had marked her as a sacrifice to the Ghost Mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine, even if her will is truly strong, why after enduring two hellish nights is she still so radiant and so reverent toward the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother finally touched her, an endless flood of negative emotions shattered her already fragile mental defenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them groped their way—one sat on the bed’s edge, the other on a chair—both gasping for breath; merely touching the Ghost Mother had already inflicted spiritual trauma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That day, guided by the old woman, she worshipped the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother, and that very night she played the clapping game to save her life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wen Chao’s hand neared the Ghost Mother’s eye, about to fulfill the game’s condition, Yue Mei let out a cruel, sharp voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Shi Ji finally touched the Ghost Mother’s eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he did not notice that something had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She opened her eyes and faced the original evil of this blessed land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Mei was found by the Child-Seeking Ghost Mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he thought this, Wu Xian’s face suddenly changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Mei must also offer sacrifices regularly; otherwise, the Ghost Mother would punish her immediately for breaking the rules—and the Ghost Mother desired sacrifices of high-quality flesh and blood, untouched by this world’s corruption, just like her own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Yue Mei turned her thoughts to the other survivors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If even one of you had helped me back then, I wouldn’t have ended up like this—now it’s your turn to pay for your past mistakes!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m sorry, Professor Wen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian instantly smelled the stench of pig intestines…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After becoming a follower,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She kept encouraging herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He trembled as he leaned close to the Ghost Mother and blew a foul breath onto her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course—it’s too terrible…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You saw those visions too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his long scientific career, he had long understood that tension served no purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She groped in the darkness, found Wen Chao standing on the opposite side, and the seeker switched again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Maybe… she’s soft on the outside but tough inside?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Xian nodded in empathetic agreement—he considered himself a man of strong will, yet even he had nearly broken under the impact of those visions; an ordinary person would have…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Wen Chao could reply,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Mei reached out and grabbed Wen Chao’s eyes—she intended to force him to open them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1223,"2026-06-20T14:31:06.102Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e37d7bc1cc95d8d985305ea3760b236755d0014f5c8daef57d284d424132cbcd","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-33","heavenly-official-bestows-evil-chapter-31",556,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fheavenly-official-bestows-evil-cover.jpg"]